Kestrel AI YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Kestrel AI went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Fall 2025
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Raman VarmaFounder
Evan ChopraFounder

What Kestrel AI does

Kestrel is the AI automation layer for platform engineering teams. Platform teams use Kestrel to automate incident response, cloud provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests across their stack. Kestrel turns natural-language prompts into deterministic, production-ready workflows with 25+ integrations, 140+ pre-built actions, and support for custom HTTP and webhook actions. Developer-first, with a CLI, Python SDK, and MCP server to manage workflows from where platform teams already work.

Kestrel AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kestrel AI, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kestrel AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents for Platform Engineering

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build Kestrel, an AI automation layer that helps platform engineering teams automate incident response, cloud provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests. It converts natural-language prompts into reliable, production-ready workflows across 25+ integrations and over 140 pre-built actions.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where platform engineering teams and cloud infrastructure companies converge, giving us direct access to users and hiring talent familiar with Kubernetes and cloud tooling.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kestrel AI YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Kestrel AI's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Kestrel AI would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.